Author: Lodowick LloydPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A Briefe Conference of Divers Lawes
Author: Lodowick LloydA Briefe Conference of Divers Lawes
Author: Lodowick LloydPublisher:
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Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A Briefe Conference of Divers Lawes, Divided Into Certain Regiments
Author: Lodowick LloydA Briefe Conference of Divers Lawes : Divided Into Certaine Regiments. By Lodowick Lloyd....
Author: Lodowick LloydComparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History
Author: Daniel R. CoquillettePublisher: Duncker & Humblot
ISBN: 9783428461776
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Civilian Writers of Doctors' Commons, London : Three Centuries of Juristic Innovation in Comparative, Commercial and International Law.
Theaters of Pardoning
Author: Bernadette MeylerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501739395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England. Shifts in how pardoning was represented on the stage and discussed in political tracts and in Parliament reflected the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused form of the concept to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty. Meyler shows that on the English stage, individual pardons of revenge subtly transformed into more sweeping pardons of revolution, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, where a series of final pardons interrupts what might otherwise have been a cycle of revenge, to later works like John Ford's The Laws of Candy and Philip Massinger's The Bondman, in which the exercise of mercy prevents the overturn of the state itself. In the political arena, the pardon as a right of kingship evolved into a legal concept, culminating in the idea of a general amnesty, the "Act of Oblivion," for actions taken during the English Civil War. Reconceiving pardoning as law-giving effectively displaced sovereignty from king to legislature, a shift that continues to attract suspicion about the exercise of pardoning. Only by breaking the connection between pardoning and sovereignty that was cemented in seventeenth-century England, Meyler concludes, can we reinvigorate the pardon as a democratic practice.
Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws
Author: David Chan SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107069297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This study of Edward Coke's legal thought reinterprets the political and legal thought of early Stuart England.
A Bibliography of English Law ...
Author: Sweet & MaxwellSweet & Maxwell's Complete Law Book Catalogue: A bibliography of English law to 1650, including books dealing with that period, printed from 1480 to 1925
Author: Sweet & MaxwellOedipus Lex
Author: Peter GoodrichPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520332938
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and boredom, of addiction to law, of legal repressions, and the aesthetics of jurisprudence. He retraces the genealogy of law and invokes the failures and exclusions—the poets, women, and outsiders—that legal science has left in its wake. Goodrich analyzes the role and power of the image of law and details the history of law's plural jurisdictions and traditions of resistance to law. He explores mechanisms of repression and representation as constituents of modern subjectivity, using long-abandoned medieval texts and early appearances of feminism as resources for the understanding and renewal of legal scholarship. Not simply deconstruction but also reconstruction, this work is keenly attuned to the discontinuties, silences, and gaps in the cultural tradition called law. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.